Web sites are
servers connected to the Internet. On Web sites, you can publish Web pages
in a format called HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). Anyone with a computer
connected to the Internet can view Web pages using programs called a browsers,
such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or AOL/Netscape Navigator. You can also
use Web sites to send and receive email over the Internet.

Creating
and publishing Web pages

The easiest way
to create a Web page is to use a Web authoring-tool, also called an HTML-authoring
tool. Some of the more common authoring tools are Composer, which is free and available from
Netscape, FrontPage, which is available
for purchase from Microsoft, and Dreamweaver,
which is available for purchase from Macromedia. These
tools write the HTML code for you as you compose your page. Using them is
similar to using a word processor such as Microsoft Word.